I went through all the sprite index bitmaps on the original texture (0-11), and could only find one bitmap that showed the 4 reload dots. This leads me to believe that Halo is somehow capable of having animated sprites.

Now the big question is, how to replicate them? There's definitely a lack of information in regards to this, and it's a huge pain not knowing what makes something so small and unimportant, that difficult to replicate.

I could try looking at this as if I were making a GIF, but then how would I even make Halo recognise it?

Let me know if anything is overkill or I should get (like a CPU cooler or SSD. Or something else I forgot.) Remember, the more money I can save but still have an awesome machine, the more I'll be happier at night. The more it costs, the more it may take to actually buy.

On the original HUD, there are 4 reloading dots that appear on the Banshee, Rocket Hog and Scorpion HUD when it reloads. I've recently been trying to create my own version of those dots, however I've run into a problem where all the dots on the new bitmap appear. Whilst studying the original, I noticed that its alpha is made up of 'pyramid' like shapes. Does anyone here have any insight on how to get custom dots working like the original? I would really appreciate it.